Juvenile Trial Defense Case | Successful Juvenile Trial Defense, Concluded With Protective Dispositions of Types 1 and 2 for a Student Who Committed a Sexual Offense

The client who came to Daeryun to defend against a juvenile trial was a male student facing a juvenile trial.

The client began dating a schoolmate with whom he had been chatting online.

During a video call after returning home, the client asked his girlfriend to show him part of her body.

His girlfriend removed her clothing and showed her chest and genital area, and the client captured and saved the screen.

As a result, the client needed to defend against a juvenile trial on charges of producing sexual exploitation material, and he visited Daeryun to obtain the assistance of a school violence attorney.

■ Protective Dispositions in a Juvenile Trial

◎Juvenile Act

Article 32 (Decision on Protective Dispositions)

① Where the juvenile court judge finds, as a result of the hearing, that a protective disposition is necessary, the judge shall, by decision, impose one of the dispositions falling under any of the following subparagraphs.

1. Entrustment to the protective custody of a guardian or a person who can protect the juvenile in place of a guardian

2. Order to attend a course

3. Order to perform community service

4. Short-term probation by a probation officer

5. Long-term probation by a probation officer

6. Entrustment to the protective custody of a child welfare facility under the “Child Welfare Act” or another juvenile protection facility

7. Entrustment to a hospital, a sanatorium, or a medical rehabilitation juvenile reformatory under the “Act on the Treatment of Protected Juveniles”

8. Referral to a juvenile reformatory for not more than 1 month

9. Short-term referral to a juvenile reformatory

10. Long-term referral to a juvenile reformatory

To defend the juvenile trial, we argued that the client had ordinarily been a model student who diligently attended to his school life.

After this incident, the client's parents deeply regretted that their failure to properly educate the client had led him to commit the offense.

We also argued that the client was making efforts on his own to prevent reoffending.

Accordingly, the school violence attorney appealed for the greatest leniency permitted by law for the client in the juvenile trial.

We argued that, at the time of the juvenile trial case, the client was a young 14-year-old whose sexual understanding had not yet been established.

No matter how young a person is, committing a sexual offense is wrong; however, this was conduct undertaken out of mere curiosity, without malice.

The school violence attorney emphasized in the juvenile trial that the client deeply regretted and repented of his wrongdoing, and appealed for leniency.

We argued that the juvenile trial was a case that came to the authorities' attention not through a complaint filed by the female victim, but through photographs discovered during the investigation of another case.

The client had deleted all of the photographs of his girlfriend's body that he had saved, and he had been living without even remembering them.

After a considerable time had passed, the photographs came to light when the investigative authorities conducted digital forensics on the client's mobile phone in connection with another case.

The school violence attorney emphasized that the client had deleted the photographs long before and had never distributed them anywhere.

The client who came for a juvenile trial defense was a male student who had committed a sexual offense, and the assistance of a school violence attorney was needed to defend against the juvenile trial for the sexual offense.

Accordingly, Daeryun assembled a case team of school violence attorneys experienced in juvenile trials for sexual offenses and assisted throughout the overall process.

As a result, the court imposed protective dispositions of Types 1 and 2 on the client: entrustment to the protective custody of a guardian and an order to attend a course at a sexual counseling support center.

If you, like this client, need to defend against a juvenile trial, we recommend that you 🔗consult with a Daeryun Law Firm school violence attorney.